Small utility knife with maple candy

daizee

daizee

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Hallo,

While waiting for some more interesting material to come in, I decided to experiment with this piece of 1/16" 1095.

I scaled my rigging knife drawing down to 75% and made the blade spine concave instead of convex. It's roughly finished as it was really just and experiment and I made a grinding goof or two while doing these very shallow bevels. But the wood popped out so nicely I want to share.

Specs:
1/16" 1095
1/8" brass pins w/ epoxy
curly maple scales from the firewood pile! (two casual coats of tru-oil)
~2.5" blade, tip to handle
Heated with a propane torch in a two-brick forge
Quenched in 150deg(F) pre-heated Canola

-Daizee

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Just Birchwood Casey Tru-Oil, which is some kind of linseed oil blend.

-Daizee
 
Looks like it would be a good rigging knife. Being that thin I figure its really sharp.

If you use a sharper drill bit and slow down the penetration your handle holes won't burn around the edge.

Thanks for sharing, Fred
 
Fred.Rowe said:
Looks like it would be a good rigging knife. Being that thin I figure its really sharp.

If you use a sharper drill bit and slow down the penetration your handle holes won't burn around the edge.

Thanks for sharing, Fred
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Daizee, I am going to say the burn around the edge of the pin is from grinding off the pin and it got too hot. Very easy to do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will sometimes take a file to the pins to bring them down to the handle and then hand sand out with the handle to avoid overheating. I agree with Fred though it should make a good rigging knife though.
 
I'll have to look for some True Oil. It seemed to really pop the grain out nicely. Maple is one of my favorite domestic hardwoods.
 
Indeed, the pins are rough... most of the knife is.
Actually I had to sand down the brass rod and did a poor job of it, so the pins aren't exactly round either. That's part of what you're seeing. For some reason the epoxy came out really dark too, in addition to my overzealous grinding.

I think in full-size it would be a decent rigging knife, actually. I'd done this spine treatment to a paper cutout of a larger drawing and liked it. However in this size... well it's only a three-finger knife. Your pinkie curls comfortably around the butt. It's a fishpond-sized rigging knife.

Phydeaux, Tru-Oil is also really good for color... I'm about to post another that just got the same treatment. Too bad the pix don't really reproduce it, but wow! You can find Tru-Oil at Dick's Sporting Goods (depending on locale) if'n you're not in the mood to order online or whatever.

-Daizee
 
Thanks for the info about the Tru-Oil. I'm out of work right now, so budget is limited, but it is now on my to try list.

Ric
 
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